Talented artists and ensembles are selected at the Beverly Hills National Auditions and
presented monthly in the South Bay on The Interludes concert series. The concerts also
are presented on the preceding Friday evenings on the Music By The Searecital series in
the Encinitas Public Library. From January through June, the concerts are presented the
following Sundays on Beverly Hills' Music In The Mansion recital series in Beverly
Hills' historic Greystone Mansion. The next Beverly Hills National Auditions for the
2019-2020 concert season will be held on Saturday, April 13, 2019.

Saturday afternoons at 3:00 p.m.First Lutheran Church & School
2900 W. Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90503
(on the south side of Carson Street just east of Maple)
For a Google map, click here.

Multi-talented Jonathan Sussman has won numerous competitions in Southern
California as flutist and violist. Jonathan is a double major at USC studying flute at the
Thornton School of Music and biomedical engineering at the Viterbi School of
Engineering. In this recital, all of Jonathan's musical talents will be on display as a flutist,
violist, pianist, and composer.

Alan Sussman studied with Gerard Betsche, a former student of legendary Swiss
pianist Edwin Fischer, with Professor János Négyesy at the University of California San
Diego, and with Rinna Livshin, an alumnus Odessa Conservatory. He has been
collaborating with his son Jonathan for over ten years and performing concerts with him
locally and statewide.

Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 3:00 p.m.

PianistJEEYOON KIM

A native of South Korea, Jeeyoon Kim has performed recitals, chamber music, and
concertos in leading venues across the United States. On October 29, 2017, Jeeyoon will
be the featured soloist playing George Gershwin's iconic Rhapsody in Blue with the
New World Youth Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras at Indianapolis's Hilbert
Circle Theatre.

Jeeyoon's recent album 10 More Minutes is a collection of encore pieces that Jeeyoon has
performed over the years when both the audience and the performer long for "10 more
minutes" of connection before the concert concludes. Jeeyoon will make her Carnegie
Hall debut in Weil Recital Hall with selections from 10 More Minutes on Thursday,
December 14, 2017.

Her love of music and the piano propelled her through her undergraduate studies in piano
performance in Korea onto Indiana University's renowned Jacob School of Music, where
she earned a Master's Degree in Music Education and a Doctorate Degree in Piano
Performance.

Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 3:00 p.m.

Beverly Hills National Auditions Winners
Three Rising Stars from the USC Thornton School

ViolinistCellistPianistANNELLE GREGORYBENJAMIN LASHSO-MANG JEAGAL

Violinist Annelle Gregory is First Prize & Audience Choice Award winner of the 2017
National Sphinx Competition and a Laureate of the 2013 Stradivarius International
Violin Competition. Annelle graduated first in her class, summa cum laude from USC's
Thornton School of Music, where she studied under former New York Philharmonic
concertmaster Glenn Dicterow.

Cellist Benjamin Lash has performed recitals on the Music in the Loft Series and the
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, and he has appeared twice on
NPR's From the Top. Benjamin graduated from the Colburn Conservatory, where he
studied with Ronald Leonard. He is currently enrolled in the Master of Music program at
the USC Thornton School of Music, where he studies with Ralph Kirshbaum.

Three-time Beverly Hills National Auditions winner, pianist So-Mang Jeagal is Grand
Prize winner in the 61st Washington International Competition for Piano. He also won
the 2014 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition. So-Mang Jeagal earned an Artist
Diploma program at the USC Thornton School of Music as a full scholarship recipient
under the tutelage of Professor Kevin Fitz-Gerald.

"Cristina Montes-Mateo is one among those very few individuals
who have reached the very top of her field"Maestro Zubin Mehta

HarpistCRISTINA MONTES-MATEO

First-prize winner of the Torneo Internazionale di Musica (Rome, 2006) and the
International Harp Competition "V. Bucchi" (2009), Cristina Montes Mateo is
recognized throughout the world as one of the leading harpists of her generation. Cristina
performs with leading orchestras under such noted Maestros as Bernard Haitink,
Sir Colin Davis, Georges Prêtre, Pierre Boulez, and Daniel Barenboim. She has
performed at the Berlin's Philharmonie, London's Royal Albert Hall, Zurich's Tonhalle,
Paris's Théatre du Châtelet, and New York's Carnegie Hall.

Currently based in Los Angeles, Cristina Montes-Mateo is Principal Harpist at the
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, created by Lorin Maazel – and also
conducted by famed maestros Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, and Riccardo Chailly
– for the opera house and cultural centre Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofía in
Valencia, Spain.

Besides unanimously winning the Beverly Hills National Auditions, Cristina also won
LACMA's 2017 Sundays Live! Auditions and performed on the series on Sunday,
July 16, 2017.

A favorite of Classical Crossroads audiences, three-time Beverly Hills National
Auditions winner, pianist So-Mang Jeagal returns with supremely talented friends. As
Grand Prize winner in the 61st Washington International Competition for Piano,
So-Mang Jeagal was awarded $10,000, a concerto appearance at the Kennedy Center,
and a solo recital on the prestigious Phillips Collection Recital Series. So-Mang also won
the 2014 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, receiving an all-expense-paid trip
to present a solo recital at the Liszt Museum in Budapest, Hungary.

So-Mang, along with cellist Kyung Eun Choi and soprano Jungwon Choi, trained in
the graduate program at the USC Thornton School of Music. So-Mang's four-hand piano
partner Beth Nam, also a previous Beverly Hills National Auditions winner, received her
Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees as a
scholarship student at The Juilliard School.

Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.

Los Angeles Ensemble

SUNG CHANGpianoTANNER MENEESviolaBINGXIA LUcelloJOANNA LEEviolin

Formed in the fall of 2015, the Los Angeles Ensemble was awarded First Prize at the
International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso in London and Fourth Prize at
the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. LAE is active in the
greater Los Angeles area, performing regularly in concert series such as L'Ermitage and
Classics Alive Presents as well as in intimate house concert settings.

Individually, Los Angeles Ensemble members are winners of international competitions
and have trained in leading music schools worldwide. Two are currently in the USC
Thornton School graduate program, where they study with its esteemed faculty: Jeffrey
Kahane (Sung Chang) and Ralph Kirshbaum (Bingxia Lu). Joanna Lee recently earned
her DMA at USC studying with Margaret Batjer. Tanner Menees is an Artist Diploma
candidate studying with Paul Coletti at the Colburn School, where he also earned his
Bachelor of Music.

Triumphant Return after First Winning
the Beverly Hills National Auditions in 2001!

PianistKARINÉ POGHOSYAN

New York City-based pianist Kariné Poghosyan made her orchestral debut at fourteen
in Armenia and her solo Carnegie Hall debut at 23 in New York City. Kariné has won
numerous awards and has performed on some of the world's most prestigious concert
series and stages including recitals on Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago,
Second Sundays at Two in Rolling Hills Estates CA, and in Ehrbar Saal in Vienna. Her
numerous concerto performances include Khachaturian's Piano Concerto with the
Greater Newburgh (NY) Symphony, the Schumann Piano Concerto with Sinfonia
Toronto, and the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Wallingford (CT) Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Poghosyan has toured U.S. cities, as well as Austria and Armenia, where she
performed to rave reviews the music of Aram Khachaturian featured on her CD,
Khachaturian Original Piano Works and Ballet Transcriptions, released on the Naxos
label and available on Amazon.

Ms. Poghosyan's musical studies began in her native Yerevan in Armenia. After moving
to the United States in 1998, she received her Bachlor of Music summa cum laude under
Françoise Regnat at California State University in Northridge, and her MM and D.M.A.
degrees under Arkady Aronov at the Manhattan School of Music, where she is currently
on the faculty.

Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra founder and clarinetist Benjamin Mitchell is joined
by his fellow instrumentalists of the orchestra, violinist Benjamin Hoffman and French-born cellist Juliette Herlin. Pianist Irene Kim completes the quartet. These artists
trained at some of the world's leading music schools, such as the Shepherd School of
Music at Rice University, the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Zürcher
Hochschule der Künste; Yale School of Music, Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg,
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Juilliard School, and the
Peabody Conservatory.

Los Angeles-based Helix Collective performs a high-energy, out-of-the-box mix of
world, classical, and rock n' roll. The ensemble is at home in nightclubs and on the
concert stage, from a residency at Los Angeles's Silverlake Lounge to performances for
the West Michigan and Pacific Symphonies. They have performed at the Tahoe Chamber
Music Festival, the Unexpected Film & Arts Festival, the Hollywood Fringe Festival,
and on the Laguna Beach Live! series. Audiophile Audition Magazine writes, Helix "has
a little something for everyone: those who like their classics straight up, with a
contemporary edge to it, or with populist appeal." The group has released two critically
acclaimed albums: All In was released in 2009 followed by World Dance Club in 2013.